We examine the predictive value of board gender diversity on workplace diversity and the relative importance of various board and firm characteristics in predicting diversity. With a novel machine learning approach, we measure three workplace diversity variables using a social media data set of...

This study seeks to identify the most important company characteristics associated with board gender diversity, rank their relative importance, and estimate their practical relevance. Using novel tools from explainable AI we analyze 36 firm, board, and corporate culture characteristics as...